Thanks for the clarification!<br><br><br>Although it seems like I am not able to add my nfs server...<br><br><i>2012-04-13 11:59:33,945 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand] (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] START, ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand(vdsId = 677ea110-8587-11e1-b7d5-0016367ecdf0, storagePoolId = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, storageType = NFS, connectionList = [{ id: null, connection: nfs.ovirt.test.local:/vol/ovirt/bluejay };]), log id: 67369793<br>

2012-04-13 11:59:33,960 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.BrokerCommandBase] (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] Failed in ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDS method<br>2012-04-13 11:59:33,961 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.BrokerCommandBase] (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] Error code unexpected and error message VDSGenericException: VDSErrorException: Failed to ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDS, error = Unexpected exception<br>

2012-04-13 11:59:33,962 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.BrokerCommandBase] (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] Command org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand return value <br>

 <br>Class Name: org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ServerConnectionStatusReturnForXmlRpc<br>mStatusList                   Null<br>mStatus                       Class Name: org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.StatusForXmlRpc<br>

mCode                         16<br>mMessage                      Unexpected exception<br></i>
<br>However...I AM able to mount that NFS directroy no problem when I go on the host itself...<br><i><br>[root@bluejay ~]# mount nfs.ovirt.test.local:/vol/ovirt/bluejay /mnt/<br>[root@bluejay ~]# cd /mnt/<br>[root@bluejay mnt]# ll -d .<br>

drwxrwxrwx 3 vdsm kvm 4096 Apr 13 11:59 .<br>[root@bluejay mnt]# df -h .<br>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>nfs.ovirt.test.local:/vol/ovirt/bluejay<br>                       51G   12M   50G   1% /mnt</i><br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Juan Hernandez <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jhernand@redhat.com">jhernand@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 04/13/2012 08:09 PM, Christian Hernandez wrote:<br>
&gt; Is there any way to use an existing Filer for the NFS storage? Or do I HAVE<br>
&gt; to use a host?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; We currently have a NetApp filer serving as our NFS server; I&#39;d rather use<br>
&gt; that than create a new host and make it the NFS server (as it won&#39;t get<br>
&gt; backed up...would rather have it get backed up as the Filer already has<br>
&gt; that in place)<br>
<br>
</div></div>I think there is no problem in using your NetApp filer, in fact that<br>
works very well. Just make sure that the exports that you use for ovirt<br>
are owned and writable by the user id 36 (vdsm) and group id 36 (kvm).<br>
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